Are we watching the internet die? ⊗ Robots and humans teaming up ⊗ Futures as a mirror of society
No.302 — Global population collapse isn’t sci-fi anymore ⊗ Predicting the traffic jam, imagining the stoplight ⊗ AI news that’s fit to print
A carefully curated weekly newsletter finding signals of change and imagining better futures in technology, society, and culture.
No.302 — Global population collapse isn’t sci-fi anymore ⊗ Predicting the traffic jam, imagining the stoplight ⊗ AI news that’s fit to print
No.301 — Nobody owns the technofuture ⊗ Forty-one per cent of architects now using AI ⊗ Work is a place ⊗ Enhancing education with foresight
No.300 — We just haven’t been capitalisming hard enough ⊗ Kohei Saito on degrowth communism ⊗ Holding back the Sahara desert
No.299 — On spatial computing, metaverse, the terms left Behind and ideas renewed ⊗ Where will Virtual Reality take us? ⊗ The Curiosity Matrix: 9 habits of curious minds
No.298 — Overpromising & stumbling Bambis ⊗ The scarcity of the long-term ⊗ Are fictional dystopias blocking us from better futures? ⊗ Measuring AI’s environmental impacts
No.297 — Why the debate about the future of AI needs less Darwin and more Latour ⊗ The part of the brain that controls movement also guides feelings
No.296 — The rise of techno-authoritarianism ⊗ A new global gender divide is emerging ⊗ The question is, what is The Question? ⊗ Matriarchal Design Futures
No.295 — The sublimation hour ⊗ Humanity’s inability to tackle the climate crisis ⊗ The 2024 climate fiction contest collection ⊗ Altman’s self-serving vision of the future
No.294 — Writing at the speed of thought ⊗ Afrofuturism: From a lens to a portal ⊗ Europe’s new wave of ‘meeting places for the mind’ ⊗ What happens when everyone is a designer? ⊗ The 150 best sci-fi movies
Quite a telling survey by Potential Energy, “a global nonprofit marketing firm creating public demand for climate solutions,” they found that 78% of people around the world agree that it is essential to do “whatever it takes” to limit the effects of climate change.
No.293 — Copyright, AI, and provenance ⊗ Rabbit r1 and new visions ⊗ The Internet is about to get weird again ⊗ Sentiers in 2024
No.292 — Blade Runner, cyberpunk, and our stuck future ⊗ Sci-Fi Crews ⊗ Design Futures Literacies ⊗ AI reproducibility crisis in science
No.291 — Crimes against search ⊗ Why ‘climate havens’ might be closer to home than you’d think ⊗ Exploring alternative futures in the anthropocene ⊗ The Wizard of AI